Story: I love good old fashion Jewish Racism

Note: This is not characteristic of all Jewish people...just an example of some of the ones in my neighborhood.

While walking back from the local grocery store with five heavy shopping bags, a guy dressed in a grey sweatsuit and running shoes with a hoodie on his head across the street starts eyeing me.(His appearance in any other area would be several suspicious for 4 o'clock in the afternoon.)

As I'm walking almost parallel to him, he continues to eye me like I'm going to run across 6 lanes of rush hour traffic with five heavy bags to rob him or worse.

So I decided to play with him. I stopped at the bus stop near my apartment and looked like I was about to cross the street so he stopped and pretended to stretch his legs then I let him get ahead of me. I continued walking as he kept looking until I turned to go to my apartment.

It's amazing that after five years of living in this heavily mixed but Jewish-leaning area of Baltimore that I still get the occassional glares and reactions like the ones this guy gave me.

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Most of the cars are mini-vans actually. I think it's othrodox Jews that live in this area. Very heavy of procreation. The women wear head scarfs and dark dresses. Walk to/from Synagogue on Saturdays. Boys have curls on the side of their head...

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According to the Sun, the Jewish population in the Baltimore area has grown 2 percent, to 93,400, since 1999, when the last survey was conducted. The Jewish community remains heavily concentrated in and around Pikesville, with 75 percent of Jews in the study area living in five contiguous zip codes.

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Well, you've just indicted the neighborhood as being orthodox Jewish. By your description this man doesn't seem to fit the neighborhood. You didn't say he had a beard but ... a guy dressed in a grey sweatsuit and running shoes with a hoodie on his head ...

Is that all you have? Did he smell of gefilte fish? Did he rub his hands together and clutch a little tin box? Did he begin to sweat when he passed a supermarket with ham on sale?

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It's the actual opposite. I go out my way to be courteous and pleasant whenever I see Jewish people walking down the street. I've had incidents where young boys and even their fathers would rather walk in the street to pass by me than walk on the sidewalk or cross the street period...and this happens in broad dayligght!!!

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I actually don't care. I put this story on OTchat specifically from two members (Terrapin Station and WMATAGMOAGH) to see how they would react.

As I mentioned in the story, I took to playing up his bigotry for my own amusement...which goes to show how much I don't care.

In regards to the statement you're replying to...I support an diverse community and love living here but being African-American, 6'2 and over 200 some-odd pounds, I can understand their "fear" so I try to at show that I'm not as scary as I look.

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There is no doubt a connection between "Nubians" and "Hebrews",both enslaved by Egypt..both forced into unknown lands not there own..both murdered by for reasons concerning greed..racism and other factors. There is EQUAL HATERED for both here in America and abroad..BUT..

The MAJOR DIFFERENCE HERE is cosmetic..which in and of itself is ridiculous.